Lucky People Center was a Swedish artistic collective, best known for their electronic music, which falls roughly in the

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genres. The collective started as an underground illegal nightclub in

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. It moved its base to Stockholm in the early 1990s, forming a multimedia and musical collective. Lucky People Center were sporadically on tour from 1994 to 1997, and were playing some major events around Europe during this time. The collective also produced the documentary/collage films, ''Information is Free'' and ''Lucky People Center International''.

Members

Lucky People Center is supposed to be more of a loose constellation than a group, and the projects done under the name has various members. The member list is in the sleeve-notes of the album ''Interspecies Communication'' listed as David Österberg,

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, Johan Söderberg and Skander Chand, while the film ''Lucky People Center International'' is credited to Söderberg and Erik Pauser.

Discography

Singles

* "It's Still Cloudy in Saudi-Arabia", 1991 * "Rodney King" / "Live in the World", 1992 * "Ubuuntu", 1994 * "Sundance", 1995 * "To the Space", 1996 * "What Is It?", 1998 * "International", 1999

Albums

* ''Welcome to Lucky People Center'', 1993 * ''Interspecies Communication'', 1995 * ''Interference'', 1999

References

External links

soderberg.tv

erikpauser.com

Live performance from Stockholm Water Festival 1995
Swedish artist groups and collectives {{Sweden-band-stub